FREEZE book

A limited edition FREEZE book has been produced. It is great to read the narrative by all the teams and see some nice photos on all the project. I think Julie Decker might make it available to purchase.

ADF new season poster

Alaska Design Forum is starting its new season next month. I am sending the poster design to the printer next week. I will be playing with spot off-line varnishes to enhance the flat monotone light of winter. The sculpture was created up in Fairbanks last March.

First lecture is October 5th in Anchorage.

EXPANDED VIEW - Museum Exhibit

Just finished the installation at the 4th floor of the new addition of the anchorage museum. The exhibit will be opening the end of May. I am working on the brochure that goes along with it --- and using a highly reflective mirror paper. What fun.

Latitude - Alaska Design Forum's Next Season

Just beginning the next series posters ... and will be playing with using some spot varnishes to have the word "attitude" worked into the poster. Heading to Homer in two weeks for our board retreat.

Latitude - Alaska Design Forum's Next Season

Work on next season's Alaska Design Forum design has already begun. This year an installation was created up in Fairbanks. Perfect weather helped this project come together, along with help from so many folks. I will post some new images soon. Nora took some great shots to make this piece work. 

TYPESHED 11 - Conference

A great conference exploring type in all it's many forms. Three full days of great lectures and events ... with people from around the world. Take a look at the line-up.

TYPESHED 11 - New Zealand

I am finally back after a great trip to New Zealand. One fine month of amazing places and great people. TypeSHED 11 was a great conference. 

We arrived in Wellington the final night of Sevens - a huge crazy rugby tournament ... where everyone dresses up the same and in groups. Thousand of crazy people everywhere. The next day our craziness started with trying to find someone that sell corn starch packaging peanuts for our installation happening on Thursday. This was no small feat. With our ethnocentric values, we assumed we would find them. The challenging feat involved trying to mix up the material in our hotel kitchen to calling everyone in the country --- finally rounding up some. The building process started Tuesday afternoon and continued until Wednesday evening. 

Thursday was the workshop where we launched these letters NEXT TIME into the water. Participants at the workshop also constructed words and objects and launched these too. We found the perfect setting for this. An island in Wellington bay that is a park reserve - Matiu/Somes Island Reserve. Matt the park ranger was most helpful.

The wind was shifting from the north to the south which made the launch a bit difficult. The disappearing type happened very quickly and before we knew it, it was heading out to sea, with the tide and wind on our side.

It was a fun filled day with so many great people.